Jackie Kennedy rode around naked in a convertible with the creator of JFK’s tomb, new book claims

The designer of John F. Kennedy’s tomb remembers a beautiful romance with a former first lady.

John Carl Warnecke writes about his friendship with Jackie Kennedy in his posthumous memoir: The Architect of Camelot: The Untold Story of Jackie Kennedy, Lafayette Square, and a Secret Romance. One chapter of their relationship included a trip to Hawaii in 1966 and a NSFW convertible ride.

Jackie and Warnecke met in 1962 at a dinner at the British Embassy, ​​and they grew close while he worked on the preservation project of Washington’s historic Lafayette Square with her and JFK. The designer worked closely with the Kennedys when they were in the White House, but his friendship with Jackie spanned decades.

Warnecke, who died in 2010 at age 91, was in Honolulu that summer designing the State Capitol when he invited Jackie to rent a house at the same time. Jackie was visiting the Aloha State to see a mutual friend – at least that’s the story they told when asked.

“As soon as Jackie set foot in her Hawaiian house, which she had rented for a month, she called me. She asked me to come see her place on the beach, about a mile south of my house,” Warnecke wrote, according to Weekly EntertainmentPEOPLE’s sister site.

“As I approached the beach, I spotted Jackie. There she was, lying face down on a large beach towel with a huge straw hat covering her head. But, to my amazement, not a single item of clothing covered the rest of her body. She was completely naked,” he continues.

“I took her by surprise and she gasped, but she could see that I liked what I saw. She was beautiful and, of course, relieved that it was me and not a stranger who discovered her basking in the tropical sun.”

This wouldn’t be the only time Jackie made him blush during their visit.

One evening, before going to dinner, Warnecke went into his house to get a jacket. When he got out, he saw that his convertible was out of the garage and Jackie was in the car.

“With my eyes fixed on the door, I waited for Jackie to come out of the house (but she) was already in the car, sitting in the backseat, smiling,” he wrote. “What surprised me the most was that she didn’t wear a single stitch of clothing.”

“I turned around several times to look at this extraordinary spectacle, but I didn’t really know what to think about it. She kept saying: ‘I’m all yours. All mine. I’m letting you know how much I love you,” Warnecke added.

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After hitting some traffic on their way to dinner, Warnecke and Jackie stopped at a picturesque waterfront spot “that belonged only to us.” “Finally, surrounded by moonlight and the sounds of the nearby ocean, we laughed, then thoroughly enjoyed the moment,” he wrote.

“My goal of returning Jackie to a normal life had been accomplished,” Warnecke concludes of his time with Jackie in Hawaii.

After Jackie married Aristotle Onassis and Warnecke also married, they remained in touch and eventually “renewed” their friendship after Onassis’ death and the designer’s divorce.

“There was nothing physical between us, but it was as if, in some way, we were still carrying on an exciting secret affair,” he writes.

The Architect of Camelot: The Untold Story of Jackie Kennedy, Lafayette Square, and a Secret Romance releases November 10. It is available for pre-order wherever books are sold.